Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And now since I no longer teach for a living, I thought I'd try an even more difficult way of earning money - why not try "going indie"? I'm not the first person to think any of this, it's somewhat basic rugby theory. Not to mention the rather neglected rugby game genre, abandoned by AAA since 2008.)

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities. This game represents me as a developer”, he says. “I

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture. In this sense, playing a 75% finished game is more useful than playing a 100% finished game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

From match-3 puzzlers to immersive first person space operas, video gaming is an art form as varied and valuable as literature, film, and theatre. At Heroic Labs , we see games development in a similar way. The rich variety of tooling available to games developers has delivered an explosion of creativity over the past decade.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. Still, overall this was a very impressive achievement for just 3 indie developers. Even AAA has given up on immersive sim RPGs , so any dev deserves praise just for attempting this genre I think. The Forgotten City (2021).

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